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Can people communicate through telepathy?

The concept of telepathy - communication between two beings through thoughts or ideas, rather than through words or signals - has long been disputed amongst some of the world's leading scientists. It is widely regarded to be a form of pseudoscience; however, there are still thousands of documented reports claiming that telepathy is a real phenomenon experienced by a select number of people.

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Yes, people can communicate through telepathy.

This position holds that people can communicate through telepathy. Its arguments point to the many consistent accounts of identical twins sensing each other's thoughts and feelings, and to brain-computer interface experiments that have achieved rudimentary direct mind-to-mind communication.

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No, people cannot communicate through telepathy.

This position holds that people cannot communicate through telepathy. It argues that no known physical force could carry thoughts between brains — the brain's fields fade within centimetres — and that every experiment claiming to show telepathy has, on scrutiny, proved methodologically flawed.